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FRANCE, Italy | 15 minutes | 2014
Ferdinand Knapp is the pre-eminent actor of French theatre, revered by all. In preparing for a new play, the lines between his character’s malevolent personality and his own begin to blur. His double warps his reality into a nightmare and compels him to commit an irredeemable act.Freely inspired by the « astronautic-cathodic vicissitudes of the great mining engineer of the mental system », Oreste Fernando Nannetti. He died at the Volterra psychiatric hospital in 1994. But still he endures, like a shadow beneath the cosmos.
As part of PROGRAMME COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE 1
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